Thinking of building a system and the budget is leading me toward a GTX 570 or something similar. My question is: Among the various GTX 570 cards, which ones tend to run a bit quieter than the others. Was thinking of the MSI twin frozr thinking that the twin fans may run a bit slower and quieter than single fan units. Not sure if it really works out that way or not.

The single fan in the GTX590-Classified from EVGA is not terribly noisy unless running at 100%. Running at 100% usually indicates other problems so I would not worry too much about it.

Appreciate the feedback on the 590. I did consider it but at over twice the price it's a budget buster for me for now. Eventually I may look at adding another 570 when I can afford it. Or maybe move up to the 590 if available funds allow it.

Here's another angle... What about water cooling a 570? It adds some complexity and cost but seems like I'd have more control over the type of fans used on the rad and could keep it quieter.

The single fan in the GTX590-Classified from EVGA is not terribly noisy unless running at 100%. Running at 100% usually indicates other problems so I would not worry too much about it.

Appreciate the feedback on the 590. I did consider it but at over twice the price it's a budget buster for me for now. Eventually I may look at adding another 570 when I can afford it. Or maybe move up to the 590 if available funds allow it.

Here's another angle... What about water cooling a 570? It adds some complexity and cost but seems like I'd have more control over the type of fans used on the rad and could keep it quieter.

Water cooling gets expensive.. That said I spent far too much on this air cooled (well except for the TEC cooler cpu's) setup.
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The single fan in the GTX590-Classified from EVGA is not terribly noisy unless running at 100%. Running at 100% usually indicates other problems so I would not worry too much about it.

Appreciate the feedback on the 590. I did consider it but at over twice the price it's a budget buster for me for now. Eventually I may look at adding another 570 when I can afford it. Or maybe move up to the 590 if available funds allow it.

Here's another angle... What about water cooling a 570? It adds some complexity and cost but seems like I'd have more control over the type of fans used on the rad and could keep it quieter.

Water cooling gets expensive.. That said I spent far too much on this air cooled (well except for the TEC cooler cpu's) setup.

And it can be rather elaborate to set up. There are some self contained water cooling loop setups for the CPUs....
Are there any for GPUs?My body may be here, but my mind is in a galaxy far, far away.

Of the several video cards I've had the chance to try recently the Asus DirectCU models have run cooler and quieter than anything else. I can't afford a 570 so I don't have personal experience with that particular model, but by the large size of the heatsink it should run cool and quiet, if you have 3 slots to use up on one card.

I know EVGA has the Hydro Copper GPUs that already have the water block installed but I don't think they have a 570 available. From what I've heard the 580 doesn't take to overclocking as well as the 570 so not sure if a Hydro Copper 580 is really the way to go. The Hydro Copper 590 is even farther out of my price range at this time. Much more likely I'll stay with air cooled cards for now.

Something I didn't think about until just now was that adding a simple water cooled kit like an H70 to the CPU would help to move that heat out of the case which may allow the GPU to run a little bit cooler and slow the fan speed down a bit.

I did see some articles about the DIrectCU II but wasn't sure about the noise factor. Also it could be a bit hard to find a motherboard that would allow me to eventually install two of those in SLI. I know I don't have to use SLI for cuda but who knows what I may want to do down the road a bit. On the other hand, by then I may be looking at another build anyway.

Plan for your budget to go kaflooee the minute you place your orders for components.

Plan for what you thought was your knowledge of same to be debunked in a flash.

Plan for the bits not to all fit together the way you figured.

Plan for the best and be prepared for the worst.

Plan to have fun with it...LOL.

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I've done some very minor stuff with an old HP system but this will be my first real build from scratch. The challenges are welcome but hoping that doing the research up front will minimize the unplanned impact in my wallet. Fortunately this is going to be a hobby system so I can mess with it all I want without impacting the other stuff I do. It should be fun!

OP I read your post about the 570 vs 590 and I wanted to briefly share my experience.

I too am wanting to upgrade cards and noticed I can afford a 570 or a 580...but then I considered that by saving up a bit for a 590 I could effectively have two 580 cards in one GPU for less price than two 580's. I think I'll end up saving for that 590 around xmas :)

I have a DirectCU Asus 570, another 570 from Zotac, and a ZT-50203-10M 570 from zotac, all in the same machine. I´m becoming a 570 fan, and I really can recommend the 50203-10M, because it´s cooler than the other models, overclock better, it´s shorter (nice for tight cases) and it´s even cheaper than the previous models. You won´t regret from this card.

OP I read your post about the 570 vs 590 and I wanted to briefly share my experience.

I too am wanting to upgrade cards and noticed I can afford a 570 or a 580...but then I considered that by saving up a bit for a 590 I could effectively have two 580 cards in one GPU for less price than two 580's. I think I'll end up saving for that 590 around xmas :)

Slavac: I have a GTX260 and am researching an upgrade. The dual chips on the GTX 590 sound great on the surface but then I noticed the clocks are much lower than on the 580 which has the same GF110 chip.

The GTX 580 clocks at 772/1544/4008 while the GTX 590 clocks at 607/1215/3414 and the 580 is listed at 1581 GFLOPS while the 590 is listed at 2488 GFLOPS.
So, you only get a 57% increase in rated GFLOPS with the second chip on the 590.

The GTX 590 is indeed a downclock version of a double 580. 57% increase from the 580 sounds about right. My clock stays at 1260 on it for reference.
(evga classified).

the cost per amount of speed over the 580, I would say about 200 more for an extra 57% is a good deal. The other advantage is I could squeeze 4 into my motherboard(I would not consider doing so without converting to liquid cooling).

I have the EVGA GTX570 SOC and even running 2 WUs at a time, my temp with fan at 70% is only around 60°C. The chassis is what matters as the card is a side breather instead of a rear breather and thus I have vent holes on the side of the case. EVGA put a nice fan on the card so you don't honestly need water cooling IMHO.

Also... when I get this running I'll probably move the GT240 from my old HP box to this new system. I doubt the old processor in the old HP box is contributing enough to my RAC to warrant keeping it running.